JOEY KENNEDY: It's Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for?

I love Thanksgiving. Not for the food, though for a fat guy, the food is awfully good. No, I like it because it lets us review our year, our life, our situations. Thanksgiving motivates us (or some of us) to consider what is worthy of being thankful for.

I am thankful for so much. I live in the greatest country in the world. No place else that I know gives me the opportunities I have here. I am thankful to work at a great newspaper. I don't care what you think about The Birmingham News, every day (or most every day, anyway), I get up and look forward to going to work. I don't know what the day will bring, but I love it, even when it's stressful, or uncomfortable, or frustrating. I love my job. I'm thankful for my friends. Nobody has better friends than me. OK, your friends might be as good as mine, but they're not better! And I'm thankful for my wife, Veronica, who makes every day a day that is beyond worth living. She's there for me when I need her, and there for me when I don't think I need her but I do. Veronica is what makes my life worth living.

What are you thankful for? Tell it. Say it. Write it. We are blessed in so many ways. If you tell it, or say it, or write it, then the appreciation becomes tangible.